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Updated: May 21, 2025
Rarely, and apparently only by mischance, does a ray take bait; but when hooked it affords good sport, for its impassive resistance is incomprehensibly great in comparison with its size, and comparable to the pull of a green turtle which in its wanderings has become foul-hooked.
He shook his head. "That's a big Marlin and you've got him foul-hooked," he asserted. This statement was made at the end of three hours and more. I did not agree. Dan and I often had arguments. He always tackled me when I was in some such situation as this for then, of course, he had the best of it. My brother Rome was in the boat that day, an intensely interested observer.
Late one evening, fishing in the Haly Weil, the Colonel got fast in something heavy which, resistless as fate, bored steadily down the river a full half mile to the Tod Holes in Dryburgh Water. Here, heavy and sullen, and never showing himself, he ploughed slowly about, and Colonel Haig, already overdue at home, became impatient, believing that he must have foul-hooked a moderate-sized fish.
"Well, if he's not foul-hooked, then you're all in," replied the captain. Cheerful acquiescence is a desirable trait in any one, especially an angler who aspires to things, but that was left out in the ordering of my complex disposition. However, to get angry makes a man fight harder, and so it was with me. At the end of five hours Dan suggested putting the harness on me.
He had not as yet hooked a swordfish. "It's a German submarine!" he declared. My brother's wife and the other ladies with us on board were inclined to favor my side; at least they were sorry for the fish and said he must be very big. "Dan, I could tell a foul-hooked fish," I asserted, positively. "This fellow is too alive too limber. He doesn't sag like a dead weight."
There was another spring into the air, the fish fell with a splash into the water, and the line was flying helplessly in the air, with the two flies floating about. "Ay," said Duncan, with a sigh, "it wass foul-hooked. It wass no chance of catching him whatever."
Twenty-four years I've waited for this!" I went into that icy-cold river and made my cast just above the weir, and all but foul-hooked a blue-and-black water-snake with a coral mouth who coiled herself on a stone and hissed male-dictions. The next cast ah, the pride of it, the regal splendor of it! the thrill that ran down from finger-tip to toe! Then the water boiled.
"This fish seems mighty heavy," said he, "and it runs around different from a cod." None the less, he kept on pulling in line, and at length saw the gleam of a fish. "Humph!" said he, "no wonder it pulls hard! I've hooked it right square in the side. It pulls harder than a foul-hooked salmon, down that deep in the water. I wonder what it is?"
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